great post; hope your ideas do catch on.

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    • great post; hope your ideas do catch on. - nm
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You can e-mail me your responses.  All ideas and requests are welcome. Maybe I cannot deliver on all but you never know if you don't ask. Wouldn't it be great if at least we could get the top 3 or 5 requests? Keep writing your thoughts, I'm listening.

housework before school starts.  I cannot WAIT for school to start.  I'm so tired of the kids' bickering and attitudes this summer.  They've taken to ignoring me whenever I ask them to do anything.  I threaten them with grounding, loss of privileges, or slave duty.  Then they bicker about who did more chores or who made the mess to begin with.  Instead of cleaning up after them, I leave it sit until their Dad gets home.  If they don't want to listen to me, they'll darn well listen to him.  

They are usually really good kids.  I think it's mostly cabin fever because a lot of their friends went on vacation or stayed with their biological Dads for the summer.  The kids are so bored.  I'm just so tired of it every summer.  I have all these grand plans for finishing work early and doing something fun each day, but I get the same garbage every year.  Too many kids over here, too many interruptions, too much bickering, too much mess.

Let me tell you, I'm celebrating on the first day of school.  I'm going to the coffee shop and buying a big mocha latte.  Then I'm going to sit there all by myself and read a book.  On the way home, I'm grabbing lunch for myself and watching a chick flick by myself.  No McDonalds either.

Thanks for all the great ideas - I have been looking around for groups to join, but most meet when I am working in this area, so makes it difficult to get involved when most people in these groups are retired.  I probably sound like I am making excuses, but I am really not - just difficult to explain that there are not a lot of choices around here to get involved unless you create something that works for you and then who knows what response that would get!  Yes, there are cafes, but again it is retired people who frequent these places.  Yes, there is a garden club and book club, sewing and quilting club (no sewing machine to get involved), garden and book club meets in the day time when I am working, I do knit and have thought of starting a prayer shawl ministry, but would have to ask around of others who do this and get together.  I will check out googling groups in my area for chat or such - never thought of that.  I am somewhat shy, when I feel comfortable around people then I am more comfortable with socializing, but stepping out cold turkey and getting involved is not my thing.  My closest neighbor is a mile or more away, I live in the country - so makes the getting acquainted a little more challenging and again there are many older people who live around here.  Don't know of anyone interested in a Bible study, but would enjoy doing that if I knew of anyone interested.  Being single in a couples or elderly world is a tough thing!!   I have tried things before, but feel there are not a lot of opportunities around here, so that is why I thought of seeing if there was an interest in my area with people who work out of their homes - maybe they have enough friends and don't need somethign like that, but was just an idea of mine.  I will take your ideas to heart and see what I can come up with - thanks for your responses - they are appreciated!!

lorlyn

You might want to try posting on the state boards also.  They don't seem to be too popular, but its worth a try.  Maybe you can call around other satellite hospitals and ask?  Sorry your having problems. 

More advice would also be that one has to *put in your time*, especially if you're young, i.e., I worked at a hospital for 8-9 years in 3 diff depts, did MTg along w/other duties, then worked for a svce 7 years, and another one for 1-1/2 yrs, then got my own accts. 

But I learned terminology all along the way and at the hospital took a basic med term course and got a certificate, (not CMT though).  Learned 3 fields there while working.  However, when I got to the first sve, thinking I knew sooooo much, WAKE UP CALL, I felt I knew nothing - as svce had full hospital accts (along w/pvt MD accts).  I took on 12 accounts there for 7 years.  I learned just about every field there, love working from home.  

Just for the record, I ALWAYS get dressed every day and never *stay in my jammies* working, as someone else posted, as if that would be something to aspire to (?).  I think getting dressed is great discipline or keeps one disciplined I think, in my opinion.

Hope everyone has a nice profitable week

I, too, believe we are the JEWELS of the industry - us older ones who have been doing this work for 3+ decades or more or less.......We step up to the plate just like we have been for ALL those years.

Thanks for your positive post!  You hang tough too!!!  *S*

Lottery?  We have a better chance of getting hit by lightning, unfortunately, than winning the lottery - which is a 1:14,000,000 chance at that.  Hence, I NEVER do play it anymore. 

Have a great Sunday!!! 

I recently quit an in-house job to go back working at home.  Hated the politics, the doctors were crazy unorganized and waaaay too much drama.  Now I get to work in pajama pants and a t shirt, no more 30 minute drive to work and even as I type this, one of the cats is trying to sit in front of the monitor to get my attention.  Right now it's cute, as I'm not on the clock.  Later on tonight, however...............

GREAT POST.......

To the first poster - You need to ask him?  Tell him!!!  All households should be equal....everybody's things being equally important.......

With all that we have to know, physiology, anatomy, pharmacology, oncology, ophthalmology, surgery, equipment, physical therapy, OT, rehabilitation therapy, cardiology and all THAT entails, neurology and neurosurgery, physiatry, psychiatry, psychology, pediatrics someone in this thread has the audacity to say we are less than professional?

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